The Up Beat
By Amy Wong

July 2012

  • PT Is Short for Physical Therapy... and Positive Thinking

    It was raining hard when I got up. Good for cooling the city off. Not good for walking to the office on a blown-out knee, so I let my colleagues know I’d be working from home. “I’ll be on email except for a couple of hours when I’m doing PT.”

    “Glad to see you dedicate time to positive thinking,” one coworker replied. He was joking—he knows PT is short for physical therapy and that I’m rehabbing the aforementioned knee to get it as strong and flexible as possible before I have surgery next month.

  • An Olympian, a Young Writer and the Power of Positive Thinking

    The summer Olympics are here, and I'm so excited. Say what you want about the Games becoming too commercialized, but I will always have a soft spot for the Olympics because I trace my genesis as a sports fan back to the Miracle on Ice.

Amy Wong is the executive editor of Guideposts and was a founding editor of Positive Thinking. She lives in New York City with her adopted dog, Winky, a natural-born positive thinker who believes that everyone has a treat for her and every day is the best day of her life. Amy hopes to be that optimistic someday (she’s working on it!).